Bitwsie operators in Lua

["mike krimerman" <hemkond@...>]

The latest Lua implementation does not seem to support bitwise operators. 
Several patches exist on the web, some as an extension module (bit.band....) 
and lua-users seems to have an old source-patch for bitwise operator 
support.

1. Is there any plan to add support for bitwise operator in the generic Lua 
version?
2. Where can one find the latest patch?
3. This seems like a very basic and popular language feature, what are the 
reasons for not adding it to the core language until now?

thanks,
Mike

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